60 container vessels slated to enter Yangon Port in Nov

 

November 01, 2025

 

A total of 60 container vessels are scheduled to enter the Yangon Port in November 2025, the Myanma Port Authority announced.

 

Eleven container vessels run by Cosco Shipping Line, eight by SITC Shipping Line, six each by CMA CGM Line and ONE Line, five each by MSC Line, Maersk A/S Line and Samudera Shipping Line, four by Ti2 Container Line, three each by RCL Line and Evergreen Line, and two each by BLPL Shipping Line and Land and Sea are scheduled to call at the Yangon Port in November.

 

Myanma Port Authority has arranged maritime trade channels to handle increasing imports to meet domestic demand, to bolster exports, and to improve port capacity for significant arrivals of ships. Myanma Port Authority notified that it will inform exporters and importers of ship arrival schedules in a timely manner upon an extended schedule.

 

A total of 62 container vessels in January 2025, 53 in February, 58 in March, 62 in April, 65 in May, 62 in June and 60 in July arrived at Yangon Port. Sixty containers in August, 59 in September and 68 in October are slated to enter the Port.

 

Yangon Port handled 633 container vessels in 2024 and 629 in 2023. Thanks to the draft extension, the international ocean liners can access the inner port for now, according to the Myanma Port Authority’s statement on 22 June 2022.

 

After the new navigation channel (Kings Bank Channel) accessing the inner Yangon River was found, the draft extension work was accelerated. After that, the port can now handle larger ships. The container vessel MV SITC Zhaoming (185.99-metre LOA, 35.25-metre Beam, 29,232 GRT and 2,698 TEUs) of Hong Kong-based SITC Shipping Line docked at Asia World Port Terminal for the first time on 22 June, which is the largest ship that AWPT Port has handled.

 

From May 2021, the arrival of the ships at terminals in Yangon has increased again. Three new container vessels by Maersk Line Myanmar (SeaLand Maersk) started to run to fulfil the seaborne trade requirements in 2021. Earlier, the larger ships had draft problems, preventing sailing on the Yangon River. With the draft being extended up to 10 meters, the larger ocean liners can enter the Thilawa Port. — NN/KK